[ADN Kronos] A civilian was killed and three others were wounded on Thursday in a car bombing in the volatile northern city of Mosul, a security source said, quoted by the Voices of Iraq news agency. Two other roadside bombs wounded four Iraqi soldiers and four civilians in Mosul the same day.The attacks came two days after a truck bomb killed seven people and injured 25 at police headquarters in Mosul on Tuesday. Seventeen people were wounded in the explosion.
Mosul is a flashpoint for ethnic and sectarian conflict. is viewed by the US military as one of the last major combat theatres in Iraq as US troops prepare to withdraw over the next eighteen months.
Al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups are making a stand in Mosul as violence across the rest of Iraq begins to recede six years after the US invasion.